The White Working Class That Caused These Problems

There are some people part of a gang in the neighborhood like southside or O block. Who didn’t choose what they are right now. They wanted to be successful in their lives and they also wanted to achieve their goals but the atmosphere in those neighborhood wouldn’t allow them to be successful. In this article “Addicted to guns”, Chicago reader reporter Mick Dumke tells the story of Tony Wade.“Wade's grandfather did what he could to keep his grandson out of trouble—he sent Wade to Catholic schools, pushed him to excel in his studies, required him to attend church on Sundays, and taught him to work in his carpet business. Wade became a

This book weaves the tale of four generations of the Banes family, who lives in Chicago’s poorest neighborhood called North Lawndale. The author spent a year from May 1989 to April 1990 with this family and observed its struggle with the prevailing health care system. The story rotates in the Banes family, Jackie Bane, her husband Robert Bane, their children Latrice, Demarest , Brianna, Jackie's grandmother Mrs. Cora Jackson and Jackie's father and Mrs. Jackson’s son Tommy Markham.

The journal article begins by introducing an African American couple who resided in Russellville, Kentucky. James Wright held an occupation as a corn cutter while his wife Gladys worked as a cook in a white home. The time span of their journey occurred at the beginning of the great depression all the way through World War II. Seeking better employment opportunities, James traveled to Louisville. Although, his first couple trips were in vain. His resilience and determination eventually lead to a job working for International Harvester. During an era of many trials and tribulations, James found a way to support himself and his family by migrating from a rural to an urban area. By sharing this anecdote the author establishes a mood of hardship

He claims that the joblessness among inner-city blacks has reached catastrophic proportions and people not having jobs has nothing to do with the politics or political views that has America separated today. Not enough is being done for that working class and current levels of joblessness in some neighborhoods are unprecedented . The majority of adults had jobs in 1950. By 1990, only one in three worked in a typical work week. Many of today’s problems in the inner-city neighborhoods such as crime, family dissolution, welfare, are fundamentally a consequences of the disappearance of work. Changes in the district and the location of jobs are several factors that cause the disappearance of work. These problems make the people who live in these inner cities very unhappy claiming that the area was once a thriving. Crowds were dense at rush hour and people were arms length away from the train station, now has the appearance of an empty bombed-out war zone. Commercial strip have been reduced to a long tiunnel of charred, vacent lots littered with garbage. The only stores that seem to be thriving are bars and liquor stores. I guess to Everyone in the area seem to be going for a drink and putting the their drinking to release their pains of the past. The area is now a ghost

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, the author of Random Family, depicts a diverse perspective of unpleasant life experiences people suffer from within ghetto communities. Although Random Family was not my choice to read, I am privileged to have read this remarkable book as it conveys distinctive similarities that accurately represent the male populace who live in underprivileged urban communities. To expand on the earlier mentioned, young men who cohabitate in ghetto communities often have relatives who actively influence their participation in gangs, drug sells, and incarceration. As I read the book, I became conscious of the chapter headings as it correlates with the endeavors that young males face of a lower socioeconomic status. For example, chapter titles such as The Street I, Lock Down II, Upstate III, House-to-House IV and Breaking Out V represent the struggles young men face at a micro-level (Strong & Cohen, 2014, p. 51). Random Family conveys the message that men in ghetto communities is unable to overcome the adversities associated with the street life; however, this message is untrue as there are men who have prevailed over the life they inherited becoming successful individuals and not allowing themselves to become victims of their environment.

Just as Bill Mollison had said “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” The unfairness towards foreign people such as blacks, mexicans, irish, welsh, and many more. Though most of it was pointed to blacks and they were hit by the poverty the hardest. Then there’s poverty, people were split into two kinds of status, you’re either rich or poor. If you’re rich you have a greater chance to survive and prosper after it. If you were poor, you had to salvage as much as you can to survive. Unemployment sky rockets as workers were fired, just so company owners don’t go out of business. Many blacks had been fired before all other races. Many poverty victims had fallen into a pit of no escape,

From the get go, they maintain faith in the “American Dream”, the idea that morality and hard work will bring wealth and good fortune. However, Sinclair cleverly exposes the hypocrisy of this naive dream by placing the family in Packingtown, a place that flips the myth of the American Dream on its head. Instead of a land riddled with opportunity and acceptance, they find it to be littered with racism and immorality. Instead of the concept that a strong moral compass and hard work can bring you wealth, they find the only way a man can succeed is through corruption and

Streetwise by Elijah Anderson completes our trilogy of books in this class with a compare and contrast study of two Chicago neighborhoods and the ways that they interact with each other. Anderson takes the time to explain the historical context of the spaces and the communities to help the reader understand the complex interactions between people and cultures in Northton and the Village. While Northton was known for being dominated by a strong middle-class black presence, it has shifted dramatically in the time that Anderson did the study. As the middle-class blacks left Northton, there was a distinct rise in poverty, which led to a labeling of the

In The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, David Roediger examines the intensification of American racism in the white working classes in antebellum America. He maintains that, impelled by republican doctrine, the pressures and anxieties of industrialization and the longing for a preindustrial past, white workers constructed a notion of “whiteness” and of white supremacy in opposition to black slavery that characterized black slaves as their inferiors. Therefore, Roediger explains how whiteness was formed as a tragic response to industrialization and the subsequent anxieties of the white working class.

“I NEVER THOUGHT THAT U HAD HATE FOR AFRICANS OR PPL IN THE DIASPORA, BUT U DONT HAVE ANY SYMPATHY EITHER.”

Danielle argues that despite the fact that the tornado that hit East Nashville in 1998 brought the residents of that area initially closer together by creating a greater sense of communality, in the long run, the way the community was re-imagined—along ideas of equal or mutual beneficial development, was shaped by cultural racism. As a consequence, the revitalization efforts reinforced racially exclusive residential patterns, as the mainly poor African American residents of places like Cayce Homes were excluded from the process and did not benefit from these massive investments. Moreover, as the revitalization efforts have been heavily focused on the image of the area right from the start, “community control” groups, in close cooperation with

The comparison of the Civil Rights movement and the struggles of blacks in the 80s and 90s is similar but different mechanisms were involved. Indirect racism plagued many blacks whether it be racial profiling in a store or for driving a nice car.. Drugs and violence plagued the big cities where blacks heavily populated. Many theories suggest the government may have influenced these happenings.. The AIDS epidemic impacted many people in America and politicians began voicing their opinions and social political structures became more complicated.

Clifton, Tennessee is about as southern as it gets, come to think of it. We hunt, we drink sweet tea, and we go to Granny’s house after the service down at the Baptist Church. A lot of us drive pick-up trucks, listen to Hank Williams Jr., and say “y’all.” Main Street Clifton is lined with historical buildings such as the masonic lodge and People’s Bank. Just down the road is Frank Hughes School, home to an average of 350 students in grade Pre-k through 12. Driving the streets, and even the dirt backroads, people wave hello from behind their windshields. A simple trip to the grocery store always turns into a friendly reunion with your neighbor you’ve seen only a couple of hours ago. Clifton is a unique town full of character and incredible people. However, living in that small town always made me feel as if I were

Making her way toward the sidewalk, she turned right on Doveland Drive. Without a car, Anita must walk two and a half miles to reach Forest Creek Lane, the predominantly upper-class part of town. As she walked, her stomach turned as if she had ridden a fast carnival ride and no matter what she tried to calm her nerves, her attempts were futile. When she reached the street, she couldn't help but stare in awe at the beautiful houses that lined it. Some had the latest car park in front, others had empty spaces while the owner was at work. Anita imagined handsome doctors carrying briefcases and housewives wearing wearing the latest fashions. Anita, at 22, still lived with her parents in the not-so-nice part of town, where houses where becoming dalapitated and the roads and sidewalks were cracked and never fixed. Always feeling as if she didn't belong where she lived, she often imagianed what it would be like to live as other

Clifford Shaw is the author of, The Jack Roller: A delinquent boy’s own story. This is an amazing book that describes the life journey of a delinquent boy named Stanley, who encounters many obstacles and behavioral struggles in life during the time from his adolescence adulthood years. During his childhood years, where most of his delinquency began, he lived in the large Polish neighborhood which is known as the “Back of the Yards.” It was one the ugliest and poorest neighborhoods in the city. According to the author it is “surrounded by packing plants, stock yards, railroads, factories, and waste lands. The population is composed largely of families of unskilled laborers who depended on stock yards and local industries for employment” (Shaw 34). It was not a community of wealth. After Stanley’s mother died at the age of four, his life was not the same.